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ed lavandera, still with me? >> i am, brooke. >> i think where we left off is you were describing the area, a heavy residential area beyond the perimeter of this campus. continue. >> just trying to set the scene a little bit. the part of town you're in, north houston, is a sprawling, sprawling space of, you know, many suburban style neighborhoods. this is a highly condensed, you know, a lot of people live around there, very popular part of town. it is an area that is very popular in houston and has grown tremendously in the last 10, 15, 20 years. >> okay. ed lavandera, don't go too far from that phone. wasn't to pl i want to play an interview. i spoke with jed young, with lone star college. gave a littlepressed him on a c points he made. take a listen to that. please, tell me what you know. do we know -- is this still an active scene? >> here's the latest information. there was a -- the call began with a call to our dispatcher at 12:31. we do know a shooting has taken pla place. first glance it appears to be betw
ed lavandera, still with me? >> i am, brooke. >> i think where we left off is you were describing the area, a heavy residential area beyond the perimeter of this campus. continue. >> just trying to set the scene a little bit. the part of town you're in, north houston, is a sprawling, sprawling space of, you know, many suburban style neighborhoods. this is a highly condensed, you know, a lot of people live around there, very popular part of town. it is an area that is very...
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cnn's ed lavandera now looking back on a decade of personal attacks by the cyclist who lied about the secrets behind his remarkable success. >> everybody wants to know what i'm on. what am i on? i'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day. what are you on? >> reporter: lance armstrong's path to glory and now shame has left a trail of personal destruction along the way especially those who dared question how the iconic cyclist won seven tour de france titles. >> it's a drugs program. you know, so that was sort of what it was called. >> reporter: emma o'reilly joined armstrong's cyclingist in the 1990 and she worked as a masseuse. o'reilly also said her job involved transporting and delivering drugs for the cycling team. the report says she once made an 18-hour, round-trip between france and spain to pick up pills and even met lance armstrong in the parking lot of a mcdonald's in southern france to deliver a drug package. armstrong once told her, now, emma, you know enough to bring me down. >> history has shown that i didn't have enough to bring him down and i never wanted to bring h
cnn's ed lavandera now looking back on a decade of personal attacks by the cyclist who lied about the secrets behind his remarkable success. >> everybody wants to know what i'm on. what am i on? i'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day. what are you on? >> reporter: lance armstrong's path to glory and now shame has left a trail of personal destruction along the way especially those who dared question how the iconic cyclist won seven tour de france titles. >> it's a drugs...
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ed lavandera joining me live from dallas. ed, there has been some speculation, you know, maybe this was a partial confession. do we know tnow think there wil full admission to doping? >> reporter: there were reports over the last week or so that suggested that is what will happen and based on what we're now learning has transpired here or there in austin, texas, this afternoon, surely seems to suggest that's the way all of this is headed, which wouldn't be of great surprise to many people. but, just heard from someone at the livestrong foundation who was there today and the description of what happened came to me like this, lance came to the livestrong foundation's headquarters today for a private conversation with our staff and offered a sincere and heart felt apology for the stress they have endured because of him, and urged them to keep up their great work fighting for people affected by cancer. we pressed to try to get any details, if part of this talk today including lance armstrong admitting to using performance enhanci
ed lavandera joining me live from dallas. ed, there has been some speculation, you know, maybe this was a partial confession. do we know tnow think there wil full admission to doping? >> reporter: there were reports over the last week or so that suggested that is what will happen and based on what we're now learning has transpired here or there in austin, texas, this afternoon, surely seems to suggest that's the way all of this is headed, which wouldn't be of great surprise to many...
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cnn's ed lavandera is live in texas this morning. a lot of people are wondering if this is a genuine confession, or is it part of a larger p.r. offensive? >> reporter: well, i think people will be looking and studying the body language taped interview and determine just that. it will go a lock way in determining how you feel about that. but, you know, clearly there's a need to rehabilitate his image thereafter united states anti-doping agency report that was released back in october. 11 former teammates coming out and basically accusing lance armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his cycling career which helped him win seven tour de france titles, but that interview took place in austin yesterday afternoon. oprah winfrey sent out a tweet that said briefly, just wrapped with lance armstrong for 2 1/2 hours. came ready. he's well known for being a tough interview, well prepared. according to a source from cnn, lance armstrong showed up with a team of advisers and family members. >> and lawyers as well. that "ready"
cnn's ed lavandera is live in texas this morning. a lot of people are wondering if this is a genuine confession, or is it part of a larger p.r. offensive? >> reporter: well, i think people will be looking and studying the body language taped interview and determine just that. it will go a lock way in determining how you feel about that. but, you know, clearly there's a need to rehabilitate his image thereafter united states anti-doping agency report that was released back in october. 11...
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bring in ed lavandera, he's following all of this at a bike shop in austin, texas. part of a shop that's owned by lance armstrong. i can't imagine what people are saying. >> reporter: well, this is a place called mellow johnny's in the heart of downtown austin not far from where the livestrong headquarters are where le went before the interview with oprah winfrey to apologize. this is a place of refuge for lance armstrong as the amount of support started to dry up. this is a place where they can find support. his picture's on the wall, seven yellow jerseys hanging up there. i talked to the general manager, craig staley, runs mellow johnny's here. he's known lance armstrong since they were teenagers growing up in the dallas, they used to race against each other. for people like craig, the news has been the hardest to handle as they see their friend kind of everything kind of come unraveling around him. he told me he had his suspiciouses for some thyme. but nonetheless, he's seen lance armstrong go through what he's going through this week. even though it's self-infli
bring in ed lavandera, he's following all of this at a bike shop in austin, texas. part of a shop that's owned by lance armstrong. i can't imagine what people are saying. >> reporter: well, this is a place called mellow johnny's in the heart of downtown austin not far from where the livestrong headquarters are where le went before the interview with oprah winfrey to apologize. this is a place of refuge for lance armstrong as the amount of support started to dry up. this is a place where...
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ed lavandera takes a closer look. >> reporter: just after the u-s anti-doping agency released it's "reasoned decision" report last october condemning lance armstrong as a doper. the cycling icon made his first public appearance in one of the few safe places he had left. armstrong had just stepped down as the chairman of livestrong, days before the foundation's annual ride for the roses charity biking event in austin, texas. he was surrounded by more than 4-thousand cyclists. many of them cancer survivors. >> "obviously it has been interesting and as i said the other night, at times very difficult few weeks people ask me a lot how you doing, well i've been better but i've also been worse." as the lance armstrong myth >> reporter: has unraveled over the years. he's now often criticized for using his relationship with cancer survivors and the livestrong foundation to salvage his public image. it's been called the "magic cancer shield." texas monthly magazine writer michael hall has profiled lance armstrong extensively. >> "the foundation does this incredible work then he starts to kind of use t
ed lavandera takes a closer look. >> reporter: just after the u-s anti-doping agency released it's "reasoned decision" report last october condemning lance armstrong as a doper. the cycling icon made his first public appearance in one of the few safe places he had left. armstrong had just stepped down as the chairman of livestrong, days before the foundation's annual ride for the roses charity biking event in austin, texas. he was surrounded by more than 4-thousand cyclists....
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want to bring in ed lavandera in dallas. you know, it had to be shocking what had happened here, they're working, nothing ever anticipated that there was going to be a problem and then you've got this what almost seems just massacre by the time this is all over. >> reporter: there's no question. and the family of victor lovelady says that victor had given them no indication during his time there that he was in fear or worried about the security situation around there. in fact he had told family members that everything was safe. this was his second stint, actually worked in this area two weeks back in november and just returned from a month-long stay at that complex in algeria and he was in the middle of doing that. the family struggling with trying to figure out and get information. what is interesting about all of this that is they were actually told, just i think a day or so after the siege started, from the state department they had gotten information that victor lovelady was still alive and then it was 3:00 in the mornin
want to bring in ed lavandera in dallas. you know, it had to be shocking what had happened here, they're working, nothing ever anticipated that there was going to be a problem and then you've got this what almost seems just massacre by the time this is all over. >> reporter: there's no question. and the family of victor lovelady says that victor had given them no indication during his time there that he was in fear or worried about the security situation around there. in fact he had told...
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cnn's ed lavandera has the latest. ed, what are you hearing? >> reporter: this shooting appears to be a situation that started off as an altercation in one of the buildings between two people. one of those firing shots was wounded and is now in custody. two people were caught in the crossfire and those people were wounded and then there was a fourth person that in all of this may lay had a heart attack. that person is being treated as well. and now the focus is on the second shooter, the second person in the altercation. that person fled the campus itself. the officials say that everything is safe and secure now on the campus but the search for that second suspect is the main concern at this hour and i'm told by a law enforcement source that one of the main focuses that they are looking at right now, law enforcement agencies there on the ground is a wooded area next to the campus of lone star college. they believe that's where this second suspect might have fled into so they are paying a great deal of attention in that wooded area and i believe
cnn's ed lavandera has the latest. ed, what are you hearing? >> reporter: this shooting appears to be a situation that started off as an altercation in one of the buildings between two people. one of those firing shots was wounded and is now in custody. two people were caught in the crossfire and those people were wounded and then there was a fourth person that in all of this may lay had a heart attack. that person is being treated as well. and now the focus is on the second shooter, the...
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ed lavandera is live on the scene. what did you find out about the shooting? >> hello, anderson. the two people involved in this altercation, apparently only one gun involved, were two of the three that were wounded. the third person that was wounded was a maintenance worker here at lone star college who was standing nearby. he was wounded in the leg and is being treated at the hospital tonight. right now we know investigators are interviewing the two suspects and the two men involved in the altercation. so far no criminal charges have been filed and no one has been arrested. so they're still trying to piece together exactly what led to all of this. so far the best accounts that we've gotten from what happened i think comes from one of the students at the school who was about ten feet away and said that they could hear the students arguing or actually only one of the students arguing about something, and then all of a sudden it started escalating. according to that one student, she said it seemed like something that could have been resolved but it kept getting worse. i mentioned
ed lavandera is live on the scene. what did you find out about the shooting? >> hello, anderson. the two people involved in this altercation, apparently only one gun involved, were two of the three that were wounded. the third person that was wounded was a maintenance worker here at lone star college who was standing nearby. he was wounded in the leg and is being treated at the hospital tonight. right now we know investigators are interviewing the two suspects and the two men involved in...
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ed lavandera in austin, texas, for us. thanks so much. among those watching the oprah interview, tyler hamilton, who rode with armstrong in three tour de france races and wrote the explosive book called "secret race" about doping inside armstrong's team. hamilton talked to cnn's piers morgan. listen. >> do you feel sorry for him? because he trashed you -- >> oh, yeah. we have a whole history -- >> he just kept trashing you saying it was all lies, you were trying to smear him. >> do i feel sorry for him? yes and no. yes because just watching him last night on tv, i haven't seen him since the last time he approached me in aspen about a year and a half ago. i haven't seen him since then. >> what did he say to you then? >> just some unkind words, that he was going to make my life a living hell both in the courtroom and out. that a federal investigation was going on. >> he was bullying you -- >> i was very angry for those -- for that encounter, for a long time. and scared for a while, too, because he's a powerful guy. i took those words seriou
ed lavandera in austin, texas, for us. thanks so much. among those watching the oprah interview, tyler hamilton, who rode with armstrong in three tour de france races and wrote the explosive book called "secret race" about doping inside armstrong's team. hamilton talked to cnn's piers morgan. listen. >> do you feel sorry for him? because he trashed you -- >> oh, yeah. we have a whole history -- >> he just kept trashing you saying it was all lies, you were trying to...
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cnn's ed lavandera is live in austin, texas, what about the fallout in texas and around the country for lance armstrong now? >> reporter: i think everyone's trying to gauge just how much fallout there will be. we're here at a bike shop called mellow johnny's, not too far away from where the livestrong foundation is headquarters. lance armstrong is part owner of the bike shop. seven yellow jerseys hang on the wall back here, become a popular spot in downtown austin over the last few years but there's a lot of distancing going on, the livestrong foundation trying to make its own way without lance armstrong's footprint. it's how he confesses and body language, someone who hasn't been contrite over the last few years as he's battled the people who criticized him and accused him of using performance-enhancing drugs he has to flip that image 180 degrees. >> ed lavandera, thank you. reed albregotti writer for "the wall street journal," has an article about the timing >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> there are a lot of details we don't know about what he's told oprah and the quality of
cnn's ed lavandera is live in austin, texas, what about the fallout in texas and around the country for lance armstrong now? >> reporter: i think everyone's trying to gauge just how much fallout there will be. we're here at a bike shop called mellow johnny's, not too far away from where the livestrong foundation is headquarters. lance armstrong is part owner of the bike shop. seven yellow jerseys hang on the wall back here, become a popular spot in downtown austin over the last few years...
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ed lavandera is in armstrong's home town of austin, texas. ed, what do you know? >> we are in a bike shop called mellow johnny's. we're here because lance armstrong is actually part owner of this bike shop. his yellow jerseys hang on the wall. big posters with his arms up on victory. when we see him on tv in a couple of days, that's not what he will look like. >> for lance armstrong, it was not enough to deny using performance-enhancing drugs. had he to stand on a mountaintop and righteous cannily question anyone how he did it. this was armstrong in paris after winning his seventh tour de france title in 2005. >> to the people who don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the skeptics, i'm sorry for you. i'm sorry you can't dream big and i'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. there is no secret. this is a hard sporting event. viva la tour forever. >> which lance armstrong will appear in front of oprah winfrey. her comments so far add to the injury. >> i would say he did not come clean in the manner i expected. it was surprising to me. >> but what does that mean?
ed lavandera is in armstrong's home town of austin, texas. ed, what do you know? >> we are in a bike shop called mellow johnny's. we're here because lance armstrong is actually part owner of this bike shop. his yellow jerseys hang on the wall. big posters with his arms up on victory. when we see him on tv in a couple of days, that's not what he will look like. >> for lance armstrong, it was not enough to deny using performance-enhancing drugs. had he to stand on a mountaintop and...
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ed lavandera is in houston tonight with the latest. ed, what is your understanding at this point about how this happened? >> reporter: really, the best information or the most colorful information we have received or heard so far is from those witnesses that saw the altercation taking place. there was one witness who had told one of the initial reporters here on the scene that they had scene the altercation escalate and in the words of that one witness, they talked about how it seemed like it was something that could have been resolved but it kept escalating. one gun involved between these two people. the maintenance worker who was shot in the crossfire there was wounded in the leg and he is being treated in the hospital as well. the two people who were involved in the altercation are also hospitalized and wounded and being treated as well, but so far, no charges and no arrests have been made. >> what can you tell us, you say one gun between the two people. with so much focus now on gun laws, what kinds of guns are used, whether they'r
ed lavandera is in houston tonight with the latest. ed, what is your understanding at this point about how this happened? >> reporter: really, the best information or the most colorful information we have received or heard so far is from those witnesses that saw the altercation taking place. there was one witness who had told one of the initial reporters here on the scene that they had scene the altercation escalate and in the words of that one witness, they talked about how it seemed...
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ed lavandera has been following the story. he's in austin tonight. ed? >> reporter: erin, oprah promised leading into this interview that it was at times emotional and on this second night is when we finally saw some of that emotion. lance armstrong becoming the most emotional we saw him in this two-night interview when he had to explain to his kids that he had been lying all along for more than a decade. >> when this all really started, i saw my son defending me and saying that's not true. what you're saying about my dad is not true. and it almost goes to this question of why now. yeah. that's when i knew i had to tell him. and he'd never asked me. he'd never said, dad, is this true? he trusted me. i said don't defend me anymore. don't. >> reporter: as we moved on throughout the interview, this is the part of the interview that i think will have most of the people who have been following the lance armstrong saga for so long that will really be parsing and taking a deeper look into, and this is the question of his comeback to the tour de france in 2009 a
ed lavandera has been following the story. he's in austin tonight. ed? >> reporter: erin, oprah promised leading into this interview that it was at times emotional and on this second night is when we finally saw some of that emotion. lance armstrong becoming the most emotional we saw him in this two-night interview when he had to explain to his kids that he had been lying all along for more than a decade. >> when this all really started, i saw my son defending me and saying that's...
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. >> ed lavandera in austin, texas, for us. we will see if, indeed, lance armstrong will rise again. thank you. this was an atypical week. another big sports story that had nothing to do with a game, nothing to do with competition. it's this manti todayo story and this fake girlfriend. he says he was duped and had no part in the hoax. he also says he has no real idea why he was targeted. we'll see what happens with that. let's go back to washington where randi kaye is at the national mall. hopefully it's starting to warm up now that the sun is up. 8:06 there in d.c. >> oh, yeah. sun's coming up. the sun is up. we have a nice, big heater about the size of a small car to my left over here. so that certainly helps. they're taking good care of us here on the set at cnn. even as washington prepares for president obama's inauguration, it's also vowing to do everything necessary to protect americans in a harrowing hostage crisis unfolding in algeria. dan rivers is in london to bring us the very latest this morning. dan, good morning t
. >> ed lavandera in austin, texas, for us. we will see if, indeed, lance armstrong will rise again. thank you. this was an atypical week. another big sports story that had nothing to do with a game, nothing to do with competition. it's this manti todayo story and this fake girlfriend. he says he was duped and had no part in the hoax. he also says he has no real idea why he was targeted. we'll see what happens with that. let's go back to washington where randi kaye is at the national...
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cnn's ed lavandera is joining us with more. ed, more brutal information coming out? >> reporter: well, those pictures put a cap on this three-day preliminary hearing and it's clear that james holmes' attorneys are going to be arguing that holmes suffered some sort of mental illness and that perhaps attributed to this attack. but everyone else, the families and prosecutors say that he is not crazy. he's simply just a deviant killer. six hours before james holmes burst into theater 9, he captured self-portraits using this cell phone. these are photographs wearing black eye contacts and smiled holding a gun near his face dressed in the bulletproof gear he would later wear into the theater. in another, holmes bright orange hair is seen wearing a cap while sticking out his tongue. he smiled in court as he looked at the pictures of himself pop up on a screen. tom, whose son was murdered, says he was an animal. >> he was smiling and having a hard time controlling himself. but he's not crazy one bit. he's very, very cold. he's very, vehicle cue lated. >> reporter: prosecutor
cnn's ed lavandera is joining us with more. ed, more brutal information coming out? >> reporter: well, those pictures put a cap on this three-day preliminary hearing and it's clear that james holmes' attorneys are going to be arguing that holmes suffered some sort of mental illness and that perhaps attributed to this attack. but everyone else, the families and prosecutors say that he is not crazy. he's simply just a deviant killer. six hours before james holmes burst into theater 9, he...
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thanks, ed lavandera. >>> getting a flu shot was a popular activity this weekend. if you can find a flu shot. health officials insist there's no shortage. but demand has never been higher. cnn's mary snow joins me now with more. >> reporter: joe, this is just one small slice of the country, but new york is particularly seeing a surge in demand for vaccines because the governor issued a public health emergency for the state on saturday. now that order gives pharmacies more latitude in being able to administer shots. but it also means some pharmacies are now running short on supply. this pharmacy in brooklyn has a sign telling people they give flu shots. inside, the best pharmacist could do was put people like david o'keefe on a waiting list. >> hopefully, we'll have flu shots for you tomorrow. i have 80 shots coming in. your number will be 76. >> reporter: the pharmacist ran out of vaccine on sunday after new york's governor declared a public health emergency over the weekend. the declaration gives farm sivts the ability to give children flu shots. in new york, they
thanks, ed lavandera. >>> getting a flu shot was a popular activity this weekend. if you can find a flu shot. health officials insist there's no shortage. but demand has never been higher. cnn's mary snow joins me now with more. >> reporter: joe, this is just one small slice of the country, but new york is particularly seeing a surge in demand for vaccines because the governor issued a public health emergency for the state on saturday. now that order gives pharmacies more...
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cnn's ed lavandera was in the suburban denver courtroom as prosecutors began revealing the evidence against the alleged gunman james holmes. ed's joining us now. ed, tell us what you heard. >> reporter: well, wolf, this is really the first time since the july shootings that we've heard from -- firsthand from the officers that made the arrest of james holmes just moments after the shooting that killed 12 people here in aurora, colorado. those officers describe seeing james holmes just standing by his car in this frantic situation, chaotic, with victims screaming and yelling for help, and james holmes just standing there, decked out in protective gear, a helmet and a gas mask. and at first the officers said they thought he was a s.w.a.t. officer. it wasn't until they approached hip they realized this was perhaps the asuspect they were looking for. one of the officers described him as staring off into space, seemed to be out of it. at the same time, the officer said he understood everything that was going on, never really spoke to the officers. but it was the testimony the officers gave where
cnn's ed lavandera was in the suburban denver courtroom as prosecutors began revealing the evidence against the alleged gunman james holmes. ed's joining us now. ed, tell us what you heard. >> reporter: well, wolf, this is really the first time since the july shootings that we've heard from -- firsthand from the officers that made the arrest of james holmes just moments after the shooting that killed 12 people here in aurora, colorado. those officers describe seeing james holmes just...
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cnn's ed lavandera has followed armstrong for years and joins us from austin, the hometown of the disgraced superstar and what more do you know about the oprah interview? >> reporter: well i think i was listening to what oprah said a little while ago on the "cbs this morning" show and the way she answered some of these questions she was asked at one point if lance armstrong was contrite and she simply just said she would let people make up their own minds on that. i think it leaves a lot of questions open as to exactly to what extent lance armstrong will confess and what exactly is he going to be saying along the way. there have been reports leading up to this interview suggesting that lance armstrong is trying to get his punishment reduced and to compete in triathlons and running events which he's wanted to do but that's only done to the extent he helps investigators in other doping investigations, so he's been accused of essentially running the most sophisticated doping operation in the history of sports, according to the u.s. anti-doping agency, so to what extent will he help them? those
cnn's ed lavandera has followed armstrong for years and joins us from austin, the hometown of the disgraced superstar and what more do you know about the oprah interview? >> reporter: well i think i was listening to what oprah said a little while ago on the "cbs this morning" show and the way she answered some of these questions she was asked at one point if lance armstrong was contrite and she simply just said she would let people make up their own minds on that. i think it...